Thursday, May 15, 2008

Photos - Rocky Lane, Rappahannock River

Rocky Lane leading from Caroline Street to what is now known as City DockFredericksburg, VirginiaThis is probably the route Betty Herndon Maury walked to the Rappahannock River on April 18, 1862. See Diary entry for that date.

View of the Rappahannock River from City Dock, the end of Rocky Lane, Fredericksburg, Virginia, as it appeared in 2007.

1885 view from Fredericksburg to a spot called The Ferry across the Rappahannock RiverHarper's New Monthly Magazine, March 1885, page 607

Publication of The Civil War Diary of Betty Herndon Maury

This is to announce that The Civil War Diary of Betty Herndon Maury will be published by the journal Fredericksburg History and Biography. The entire diary, together with annotations, will be available in early 2011.